{"id":147,"date":"2004-08-21T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/lilo-and-grub-installation-notes\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:36:44","slug":"lilo-and-grub-installation-notes","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/lilo-and-grub-installation-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"LILO and GRUB Installation Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\r\n    <li>When installing Linux, it is important to make sure that you install LILO or GRUB in the root directory or superblock.&nbsp; Do not install LILO or GRUB to the MBR.&nbsp;&nbsp;These programs are used to load the Linux-specific OS kernel (most other OS's include built-in support to load its kernel).<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>To get the option to install to &quot;First Sector of Boot Partition&quot; in Red Hat 6.1\/7 you'll need to have the &quot;Custom&quot; option indented under &quot;install&quot;.&nbsp; If you don't, it will install to the MBR.&nbsp; For Mandrake, choose expert install and when it asks where to install the boot loader, change it from the \/hda entry (which will install to the MBR) to the correct \/hdxx entry (which specifies a partition and hard drive). <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When installing Linux, it is important to make sure that you install LILO or GRUB in the root directory or superblock.&nbsp; Do not install LILO or GRUB to the MBR.&nbsp;&nbsp;These programs are used to load the Linux-specific OS kernel (most other OS&#8217;s include built-in support to load its kernel). To get the option to install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1783],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2128],"class_list":["post-147","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-linux","lsvr_kba_tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/147\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}